"Annette Truesdell" : Sep 26 2020 11:49AM -0700 I’m still away from home at my mother-in-law’s (she’s doing remarkably well for a 96 year old who took a bad fall).   I’m of the opinion that “Robert Lake” wasn’t a cousin of our Lake family. I don’t have access to my many binders and boxes of stuff, stuff, and more stuff -- but from my database I have the following regarding Robert Leake:   Robert S. Leake   NAME: "Leake-Watts Orphan Home", printed in NY Daily Herald, 28 Sep 1882. Reprinted in L/L Nwsltr v3#2 Jun 1996. See also L/L Nwsltr, v1#2 "The Leake Estate".   MARR: 1st) abt 1746, name not known. 2nd) Ann Burrege. Had one daughter who died without issue; Robert William who died without issue; John George.   HISTORY:   1700 - born in Scotland.   1737 - son John George born.   1739 - enlisted in King's Horse Guards.   Abt 1740 - son Robert William born. (date estimated).   1743 - battle of Dottingen. Horse shot from under him and broke his leg. Recovered and was a Lt. in battle of Culloden during Prince Charles Stuart rebellion.   1745 – Robert and brother, James were together at the Battles of Fontenoy & Dettingen in the War of Austrian Succession. After these battles the two brothers were separated. Robert S. presumed that James had been killed.   1746 - appointed Commissary General to British army in No. America and married his first wife.   1754 - appointed Commissary General under Gen. Braddock and came to America. His first wife died in England.   Abt 1755, married Ann Burrege.   1764 June 29 1766 May 27 - Robert Leake, H. M. Commissary General at N. Y., was an executor of the will of Witham Marsh in the county of Albany per Calendar of Wills, New York, 1626-1836 by Berthold Pernow, 1896.   1773 - died in NY.   DEATH: Abstracts of Wills Vol VIII 1771-1776, pg 160..--In the name of God, Amen. "I, ROBERT LEAKE, Commissary, being through the mercy of God in Sound mind." After all debts are paid, I leave to my wife Ann all the rents and profits of my houses and warehouses in New York, with my house and farm at Belleview, and all the profit of all my farm at Seacawcus, in Bergen County, New Jersey, and at Canal Brook, in Essex County, during her widowhood, and then to revert to any or all of my children whom she shall judge to be most deserving from their dutifull behavior towards her. I leave to my daughter Anne Margaretta all my estate at Bedlington, in Durham County, Old England, during her life, and then to her heirs, and in default of heirs, then to my sons, Robert William and John George Leake. I leave to my son Robert William all my lands at Pittstown, in Albany County. I leave to my son John George my farm at Caverack and my lands on the south side of the Mohawk river, near the German Flats, being part of a tract granted to William Bayard and 54 other persons, and now lying in the County of Tryon. I leave to my two sons all my lands on the east side of the Hudson river near the Half Moon, in Albany County, And all my lands in the township of Bedlington, lying between the Cookquago Branch of the Delaware river and the Susquehanna river. I leave to my wife and three children all my right to lands in East Florida, and all my money in the Funds of England and the little I have at interest in that Country. I leave to my wife the use of all furniture, carriages, horses, etc., during her widowhood. I make my wife and Robert Rose, of New York, executors. Dated November 7, 1772. Witnesses, David Mason, cabinetmaker, George Poalk, chairmaker, William Shippen, musician. Proved, January 26, 1774.   NOTE.--Robert Leake died January 1, 1774, aged 54, and was buried in Trinity Churchyard Robert William Leake   NAME: "Leake-Watts Orphan Home", printed in NY Daily Herald, 28 Sep 1882. Reprinted in L/L Nwsltr v3#2 Jun 1996. See also L/L Nwsltr, v1#2 "The Leake Estate".   BIRTH: estimated about 1740.   MARR: _____ Watts. Per handwritten will of his brother, John Leake, she was named "widow of brother Robert, sister of John Watts".   NOTE: per WikiTree (managed by Mary Richardson, Leake family history passed down through g.daughters of Frances Marion Leake), Robert Wm. Leake, married Margaret Watts, was one of 58 banished from NY and property confiscated, as a Loyalist. (His father Robert S was also loyalist (fought in many wars for the English). Robert Wm. Leake died soon after the birth of a son (c.1785), who died 1793 at age of eight years. 1745-46 Robert S fought against the Scots at Culloden Moor with his brother, James Rebel. James Rebel was captured by the English, and sold into bondage, shipped to America.   NOTE: named in will of father, Robert Leake, wd 7 Nov 1772, wp 26 Jan 1774, "I leave to my son Robert William all my lands at Pittstown, in Albany County...I leave to my two sons all my lands on the east side of the Hudson river near the Half Moon, in Albany County, And all my lands in the township of Bedlington, lying between the Cookquago Branch of the Delaware river and the Susquehanna river. I leave to my wife and three children all my right to lands in East Florida, and all my money in the Funds of England and the little I have at interest in that Country".     John George Leake   NAME: "Leake-Watts Orphan Home", printed in NY Daily Herald, 28 Sep 1882. Reprinted in L/L Nwsltr v3#2 Jun 1996.   BIRTH: 1737. Lived in his inherited property and never married. Left a handwritten will appointing John Watts, William Bayard and others his executors. After a few bequests, estate was left to his executors in trust. They were to pay the interest on his US Bank stock to the widow of his brother Robert, sister of John Watts. The rest was to go to Robert Watts, second son of John Watts upon the condition that Robert Watts take the name of Leake. If Robert Watts died without issue or didn't agree to terms, then estate to go to board of trustees consisting of the wardens of Trinity Church; DRC; Presbyterian; and Mayor and Recorder of the city. Property was to be purchased for maintenance and education of orphan children. Robert Watts died and the orphan institution was established.   DEATH: 2 Jun 1827, L/L Nwsltr, v1#2 "The Leake Estate".   NOTE: per will of his step-mother, Ann Leake: Abstracts of Wills, Vol XIII, 1784-1786 .--In the name of God, Amen. I, ANN LEAKE, relict of Robert Leake, late of the City of New York, deceased, being mindful of mortality, make this my last will. I leave to my beloved mother my chased gold watch, my picture and a mourning ring; to my dear father my gold shoe buckles and a mourning ring; to Susanna Richards, widow, and her two daughters, Susanna and Hester, all my second best cloaths devided equally among them, and to each a mourning ring; and further to the said Susannah Richards ten guineas, and to her daughter Susanna thirty guineas; to Ann Riche, of Philadelphia, ten guineas and a mourning ring; to John Leake Norton my gold enameled watch; to Mr.   Robert Ross a mourning ring as a mark of my regard and esteem. It is my will that my two wenches, Abigail and Deborah, be henceforth free they finding security to indemnify the parish, and to each mourning and two changes of my common cloaths complete from head to foot. I do direct, by virtue of the power given me by the last will of my said late husband, that all the messuages, lands and tenements within the City and County of New York, and in the Counties of Bergen and Essex in the late Province, now state of New Jersey, whereof the profits were devised unto me by the said will for the term of my widowhood, upon my decease shall revert to and rest in John G. Leake, son of my late husband. In consideration of his dutiful and affectionate care towards me for a series of years past, by force of the power given me under the said will on record in the Prerogative office of the state of New York, all the rest of my estate, real and personal, I devise to the said John G. Leake, whom I appoint my executor. Witnesses, Samuel Bard, of New York City, Physician; Robt Carter, John Carrow. Proved, November 17, 1784.